Midwifery and Home-Based Maternity Care
Quick-Finder	...............Articles of interest to California Legislators

For purposes of amending the
Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993

Letter to San Diego Midwives -- regarding Contact with Assemblywoman Susan A. Davis D- 76th District

Citizens for Health Freedom -- Problem Statement concerning Midwifery

Proposed Text for Midwives Freedom To Practice Act of 1999

Issues of Safety and Cost-effectiveness of Midwifery

University of Washington Study on the efficacy of midwifery care (40% reeducation in Cesareans) as contrasted with physicians care

Cesarean Mortality Statistics & Hospital Use Information - risks associated with absence of midwifery principles

British Medical Journal Editorial documenting the safety of home-based birth services

List of Published Studies on the safety of home-based midwifery

Top 15 Discharge Diagnoses California Hospitals 1992 - patterns of hospital use reveal 1.1 million (or 1/3) of all in-patient care is for childbirth

Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative US Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS - pronounced 'KIMS')

One Family's Home-based Birth Experience in Photographs

The 1976 Bowland Decision and Abortion -- The legalization of Abortion and the Criminalization of Midwifery in California

Testimony to the MBC opposing a mandated written supervisory agreement (1379.21) between licensed midwives and physicians

MBC-Midwifery Committee Meeting #3, June 6, 1994 Tape 1-b (Dr. Shelly Scalla, Tape 2 -a (Senator Killea), Tape 2-b

MBC-Midwifery Committee Meeting #6 -- September 94 (Nancy Chavez, Anitia Scuri, JD)

Keeping Midwifery Alive in the 1990s -- reprint of an article about midwifery licensing by Alan Solaris

A Global Witch Hunt -- a 1994 article by Marsden Wagner, MD, WHO

Nurse-Midwife Beah Haber In East Bay -- Unwarranted Suspension of Hospital privileges after 10 years of exemplary practice

Dr. Nancy Snyderman -- Letter in response to negative comments by Dr. Snyderman on home-based & direct-entry midwifery care published October '96 Good Housekeeping Magazine

Midwifery and the World Wide Web - Commentary presented at the first meeting of the Coalition for the Improvement of Maternity Services (CIMS)

Historical Information as Published in the
International Journal Of Domiciliary Midwifery -- (IJDM)

Archival Reprint #1 -- excerpts -- Dr. J. Whitridge Williams' 1911 paper: "Medical Education and the Elimination of the Midwife"

Archival Reprint #2 -- excerpts -- Dr. Joseph DeLee's 1915 scientific paper "Towards an Ideal Obstetrics"

Synopsis of the Medical Plan to Eliminate the Midwife 1910-1920 -- brief , two-page overview of the historical politics of independent midwifery

The Official Plan to Eliminate the Midwife -- Historical Background 1900-1950 -- 5 part series

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